Referring to primary challenges as a form of “sophisticated cannibalism,” Specter called out to his moderate colleagues and would-be senators of this cycle: Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, who lost his nomination at the party convention because activists thought he was too centrist, as well as Murkowski, who lost her primary earlier this year but will likely be certified the winner as a write-in candidate.

“Congressman Mike Castle was rejected in Delaware’s Republican primary in favor of a candidate who thought it necessary to defend herself as not being a witch,” said Specter. “The spectacular reelection of Sen. Lisa Murkowski on a write-in vote in the Alaska general election and the defeat of other tea party candidates may show the way to counter right-wing extremists.”

An attentive Murkowski had no visible response to Specter’s praise, although the two are close. She stayed with Snowe until the end of the speech to greet Specter afterward, embracing him and giving him a kiss on the cheek.

He also took a shot at Roberts and Alito for “judicial activism” and even tossed in a gratuitous reference to “Justice Bork — excuse me … Judge Bork,” just to rub a little salt in one of the more lasting wounds he inflicted on social conservatives. Says the Examiner’s Timothy Carney, marveling at the Bork quote, “His closing argument was an angry, petty, mean, self-serving screed that betrayed a total lack of self-awareness.” How un-self-aware did it get? Dude:

Mr. Specter, who changed parties after he determined that his support for President Obama’s economic stimulus made him unelectable in a Republican primary, said that under the current political environment, a senator could be severely penalized for one vote cast out of thousands, making compromise impossible.

“Repeatedly, senior Republican senators have recently abandoned long-held positions out of fear of losing their seats over a single vote or because of party discipline,” Mr. Specter said.

Remember, this is a guy who became a Republican in the first place only because he thought he couldn’t win the Democratic primary for Philadelphia D.A., then flatly admitted to switching parties last year because he thought it would improve his chances of being reelected. And switching parties also meant switching principles, or whatever the word “principle” might mean as applied to Specter: Remember how his views on health care “evolved” just in time to justify voting for ObamaCare?

You can watch the whole thing at C-SPAN but here’s the bit of him whining about cannibalism. Somewhere a single tear rolls down Charlie Crist’s cheek. Click the image to watch.

I don’t know how people like him sleep at night. Every action and vote has always been with his interest first … never about others or country, not to mention his constituents. I bet he doesn’t even know what a constituent is.

It was this POS who gave us obamacare. It’d never pass if this guy would’ve stayed true to the people who elected him for the past 30 years. Santorum is a disgusting human being, and this is just another evidence of that.

The pain this man will experience has just begun. The man is a sell out of the worst kind; a man with no character, no class. This man will be shunned wherever he goes for the rest of his days. He deserves this, and he will have it.

It was this POS who gave us obamacare. It’d never pass if this guy would’ve stayed true to the people who elected him for the past 30 years. SantorumSpecter is a disgusting human being, and this is just another evidence of that.

These self-indulgent scumbags, who have run the country into the ground, won’t go away without proving they have been worthless since birth. The American people have to try to understand how human trash like this gets elected over and over or rock bottom is the next step.

Nope. Without Bush and Santorum, who’s nutty, Specter would’ve lost six years ago, and Senator Toomey would never have voted for health care. Santorum way beyond what he should’ve done to help specter.

I don’t know how people like him sleep at night. Every action and vote has always been with his interest first … never about others or country, not to mention his constituents. I bet he doesn’t even know what a constituent is.

Arlen is the genius who came up with the dubious “single bullet theory” for the Warren Commission, but only after evidence of a 3rd bullet from an onlooker who was grazed with concrete or asphalt from a bullet which hit the street or curb (James Tague, I believe) surfaced at the last minute.

“The spectacular reelection of Sen. Lisa Murkowski on a write-in vote in the Alaska general election and the defeat of other tea party candidates may show the way to counter right-wing extremists.”

No, Arlen, it shows us that when politcal leeches go against the wishes of the party’s choice in a primary, we should do all we can to squash them. I’ll never send another cent to the RNC or NRSC. My money goes directly to a candidate.

Hope you hacks enjoyed the income in the past. I look forward to the well going dry.

Arlen is a poster-child for repealing the 17th amendment and returning Senators to state legislature accountability. It’s not often they’re held accountable by their electorate, and they sure act like it’s immoral, irresponsible and impossible when accountability happens to them.

Take the pension I would sue to revoke, if I had the money. Take your damn Cadillac health plan. Take your despicable ego, so dependent on being “in office” and go into the darkness and irrelevance. It can’t happen too fast.

I don’t wish you ill. In fact, I hope you live another 20 years. And I hope your real intellect has shown itself well enough that the media will ignore you all that time, will not stoop to get your banal reflections on what is happening.

Yah, they still listen to the loon Carter, but he was POTUS. Senators, opportunists like you, there are a lot of them. The people to whom you were a useful idiot are looking for other marks, other tools. You aren’t useful anymore, bub. Tits on a bull. Nothing. Nada. Grind you up, use you for dog food, but not much else. Cats couldn’t stand the taste. so it’s dog food.

I want you to have 20 years to think about irrelevance. I think your soul, such as it is, will curdle into a small dark little ball. And then you can explain yourself to God.

The Senate produces the worst cases of Potomac Fever. It’s an Old Codger’s Home for too many sad cases. In 50 years who besides Poly-Sci profs will remember Specter, Byrd, Bennett or any of the rest of the geriatrics.

Specter ran as a Republican only because he couldn’t win the Democrat primary. Then when it looked like he was going to lose in the primary, he jumped parties and sure enough, he did.